Word: breaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly two years Franklin Roosevelt treated the country to a breath-taking spectacle of political leadership. He was in the headlines several times a week with a new plan for Recovery, a new program for Reform. Congress bowed and scraped and seemed delighted to do his bidding. Brain Trusters spouted endless ideas for revamping U. S. society. Washington throbbed with excited activity and the country felt it was at last on the move...
...said smells. . . . The Russian atmosphere is saturated with the most nauseating and depressing smell it has been my nasal experience to have witnessed. During many days there in the spring of 1933, I was unable to find a single bird in the stench-saturated atmosphere and found each breath inhaled sickening...
Thus a telegraph machine in the Manhattan offices of the United Press began to print a message one afternoon last week. Sentence followed sentence-50 words, 100 words, 200 words. The machine clicked on, stopped to catch its breath, began a new paragraph...
After taking the Nazi salute and drawing a deep breath Orator Hitler put all his simple heart into his loud Automobile Show Address: "I regard the motorization of Germany as the most important factor in our fight against un employment! . . . The German motor vehicle is not only the fastest but-we can say this pridefully-the best in the world. . . . Soon the Fatherland will be self-sufficient in motoring! I consider that the problem of synthetic fuel, like that of synthetic rubber, has been solved by German Science in principle. ... I point pridefully to our Party's record: four...
...simple and robust genius," thinks his "most constant and strongest emotion" was self-pity. A divided character all his life, says Kingsmill, Dickens was half-humorous, half-sentimental. Because he never succeeded in reconciling his two attitudes, he became "an incurable emotional hypochondriac, living in fear lest any breath of fresh air should penetrate into the hothouse of his inner life." Dickens' marriage was unhappy, but he did little to gain popular sympathy when, after separating from his wife, who had lived with him 22 years, borne him ten children, he published an announcement and defense of the separation...